Say, What Chu Looking At?

So.  Feeling a little off my game this week – its been busy but just feel like.  Well, like this photo here.

There are doors to open, but some of them go nowhere.  At least this one provides some warning!

This door is over at the Manhattan Mall, which is currently still being redone.  Their renovations include enclosing their entire center atrium in a wall, turning the previously fairly open mall into a maze of corridors, rapidly turning into a retail wasteland.

I do wonder if they felt it necessary to warn people because of an incident?  “Quick, lets hide in here to snog!”  *open*  *step*  “OH FUCKkkkkkkkkkkkk”

For the camera geeks in the audience : A few links from Gizmodo to drool over

Those of you who heard and knew : There are links to a professional photographer who got his hands on a Canon 5D Mark II — and shot HD Video. The video is supposedly unenhanced. Just the screencaps alone illustrate why this has me SO bloody excited.
Canon 5D Mark II: Canon 5D Mark IIs Full HD Video Is So Stunning Our Eyes Explode

Hellbuny has one of these, and I’m quite jealous. The Lensbaby series of experimental lenses for SLR’s basically allows for selective shifting of the focal plane, and can yield some very amusing and funky effects. They just announced a new generation of lenses — and it is making me VERY sad that I sold my SLR. Check them out :
Ball-and-Socket Lensbaby Composer Adds to Distorting Bendy-Lens Line

I don’t know about you, but I’ve got five bazillion negatives sitting around, taking up way too much space. I’ve been very tempted to dump all of the prints and convert all of them to digital images — this might be the simple and @()*%&@) cheap tool to do it.
Ion Audio’s Slides2PC Digitizes Your Old Negatives Simply, for $100

And finally, just for fun, someone photoshopped a Zoom Lens into a Coffee Mug. Now, I had this lens myself (before I sold it) — so the mere concept of taking a zoom lens that costs five hundred dollars and turning it into a MUG is painful. However, the thought of a coffee mug that could extend in size like a zoom lens? Its amusing. “Oh hi boss, wait lemme grab my coffee *retract* OW SHIT COFFEE EVERYWHERE OWOWOW”
Zoom Lens Coffee Mug Helps Keep Photographers Caffeinated

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*EDIT*  Oh. My.  God.  I just saw the video myself.  This video deserves a stolen screencap (courtesy Gizmodo)

Okay, if it wasn’t clear, this is a screen cap from HD Video, unedited off of the camera.  The ONLY resizing Canon did was to drop it to 1/4th the size so it could be served on the internet EASIER.   If it wasn’t clear, this allows shooters to shoot HD Video in low light with 35mm lenses — what would normally have cost 30,000 DOLLARS is now workable at a third of that.   I forsee alot of music videos, indy pieces, and porn being shot on these things.   Its a genre changer.

Sorry ladies, I have a new love of my life.  It is a camera.  The EOS 5D Mark II.  I will have her.

(God I’m such a dork.)

Reading this little snippet of an article regarding the LHC damage…  Large Hadron Collider down for 2 months – CNN.com

I read the following line.. 

“It’s too early to say precisely what happened, but it seems to be a faulty electrical connection between two magnets that stopped superconducting, melted and led to a mechanical failure and let the helium out…“

And my brain immediately started singing in my head, “Who let the gas out, WHO WHOO WHO who let the gas out…”

So yeah.

Glad so many people had a good weekend – many happy birthdays to Dustin, Serge and Alice.  Wish I could have visited, but my weekend was occupied with this.  Our kitchen, which has been totally torn out and redone.  Its still not done, but its almost there.. Hopefully all finished by mid-week this week.

Oh yeah clearing so many cabinets…  means our living room looks like a total explosion.  Kitchen splody.  Boom.  Boom boom.   Thankfully the kitchen didn’t go BOOM for real.  The nosy neighbors might be giving us grief tho.  -_-;

Yeah, so my weekend was boring – filled with dust, cleaning, arguing with contractors and hearing lots of construction noises..

Microsoft: Microsofts “Im A PC” Ad Beats Seinfeld But Not Hodgman

I’m glad they’ve finally gotten around to doing a decent ad.  I actually like this one – its almost a little old fashioned but well done.

No, this is not an invitation to start the whole Mac vs. PC fight with me.  I use both Mac and PC.  So bugger off if you’re gonna be all Mac in my face. 

Take a picture of yourself right now. Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair…just take a picture. Post that picture with NO editing. Post these instructions with your picture.

What?  It was late, Scott came over to buy my SLR, and what.  So its a post for both of us.  BLARGH!

I got a strange error when I tried to mark a video as a favorite today. If you want to see the whole video, you should probably just click on the link. (No I promise its not a rickroll.)

(No, this did not actually appear. Really.)

The Canon EOS 5D was a strange beast that was lusted after by many people.  Full Frame yet not outrageously priced, the hybrid was the target goal of many part time and even full time photographers who couldn’t justify the cost of Canon’s primary full frame sensor cameras.  

DPReview.com has a hands on preview of the camera now.

Highlights that I’m seeing are…

• Full Frame (Of course!)
• 21 Megapixels
• 1080p Video
• 3.0″ VGA LCD 
• Standard ISO 100 – 6400
• Expanded ISO from 50 to 25600  (!!!!!!)
• RAW and SRAW1
• Image Copyright metadata Support
• Live View with auto-focus
• Silent Shooting in Live View (Yay!)
• Digic 4 Processor
• $2699 Body Only price – November Release

Okay.. So…  Um..  …….  does anyone want to buy a kidney?

Well, its official.  I’m selling my Canon EOS 20D,  along with much of its accessories and the EF-S 17-85mm Lens.  The thing has been on alot of trips and has been a faithful shooting camera — from Toronto to Hawaii and everywhere in between.   Scott, you’d better take care of it! 

Its going to be strange to not have an SLR for even a little while.  I’ve got my G9 + flashes to tide me over.  The money is going to go towards my apartment, at least until the 50D or the 5DmarkII comes out.   Then I’ll be looking to buy the replacement.

…  maybe.  I’m also intelligent enough to realize that once I’ve sold my 20D, I may not be able to afford a replacement for a year or more.

*sniff* Camera go bye bye!

Oh Lookie!

Henry Rollins – Recountdown Tour is going to be at the Town Hall Theatre on the 30th of October.  Who’s interested?

HENRY ROLLINS.COM